[American Constitutionalist]

Tails on planes just don't fall off.
Could it had been the result of a bad repair of a earlier tail trike ? like China Airlines Flight 611 747 that crashed.
If a faulty repair was done on the tail of the plane this could caused this.
That 747 also had a tail trike incident 22 years before it crashed.

[dragnet2]

Those were just initial reports from wits on other aircraft who looked over after impact and saw a plane without a tail sliding down the runway.

[dragnet2]

It appears the tail was ripped off after striking the rocks....The aircraft landed way short...Probably due to pilot pulling nose up at last second when he saw what was happening..

[steve86]

Tails on planes just don't fall off.

True, but hitting a seawall constructed of 2 ft boulders at 150+ kts definitely facilitates the process.